Apparatus for supporting and operating clothes-lines.



No. 692,864.. Patented Fe'bpll, I902.

I C. J. LANTZ. APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AND OPERATING CLOTHES'LINE'S.

{Application filed Feb. 2, 1901.) (No Model.)

UNITED STATES.

CHARLES J. 'LANTZ,

APPARATU FOR SUPPORTING AND OPERATING CLOTHES-LINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 692,864, dated February 11,- 1902.

Applioationflled February 2,1901. Serial No. 45,697. (No model.) v v To all whom, it may ooiwern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. LANTZ, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Gowrie, in the. county of Webster-and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Supporting and Operating Clothes-- Lines, of which the foll'owingis a'specifica'tion. My Object is to facilitate stretching and operating an endless clothes-linebetween two" 'or more supports insuch a manner that a person may put on and take off garments with out walking back and forth along the length;

oftheline. u 7 My invention consists in the construction,

arrangement, and combination of an endless line, a roller in a'box', pulleys, and traveling line-supports with abuilding and fixed posts distant fromthe building, as; hereinafter set f0rth, pointed outin my c1aim,and illustrated" in. the'accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 shows all the parts connected and in position asrequired for practical use. Fig.

2 is an enlargedview of one of the traveling line-supports.

shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows the roller moun t-. ed in the box that is adapted to be fixed to a building or other suitable support.

The letter A designates an endless clothesline. f

B is a box adapted to be permanently fixed against the wall of a building, preferably unthe front of the box.

der aporch. Two bearings O, preferablycast' be extended through openings in the side walls of the box'for rotating the roller.

J is a pulley in a block detachably connected with a fixed'postK, located at a distance from the box B and roller therein. The line Ais coiled once around the roller-D and passed over the pulley J 'in such a manner that the clothes-line may be moved .back and forthin the space between the roller and the pulley by "rotatin g the roller in reverse ways by'means of PATENT iO FF ICE.

7 upper portion of the-endless line A insuch a. I

with articles of clothing silspeude'd onjthe line are'always in the samevertical'plane,:the

"as required to prevent sagging, pulleys 7r are, suspen'ded from arms rQ-extendedfrom the Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the pulley suspended from the central post.

a pulley connected with said fixed post, a fixed OF GOWRIE,,-IO'WA.

awrench applied to one of the journals fof the roller. j p I A plurality of line-su pports L, having hooks m at theirlower ends and pulleys n in their doubled top portions, are suspended on the 5:5 1.

manner thatthey will travel backandtorth i l v lower portionof the line'when the. line is put in motion by means of the wrench Hand roller D. 1 V

While the upper, and lower lengths of the upperlength can be connected with one more fixed posts P, that arenotinalineine withthe rollerDandpulley "uponwhich't line issupported. j Toai-dlin supportingft .line in a horizontal plane when stretched and 7 tops, of intermediate; posts P by means 'of' I v hangers s,- fixed to the-said arms, as shown in, v Fig. 1, or in any suitablewvay. I

In practical use when a person is under the i line A and the box B articles of clothing can 175 be readily hung on the lower portion of the line successivelyand moved with the lineuntil the lineis full and the articles suspended in the space between the box and the distant pulley J as required to expose them to'thc sun and atmosphereto dry, and whendry they can be successively taken off the line by aperson at the box by a reverse, motion ofv th roller and line. ,7

Having described the construction, function, and operation of each element, the practi-; cal utility of my invention will beunderstood by persons familiar with the'art to which it pertains, and whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is .go

An apparatus for supporting and operating a clothes-line,comprising a fixed box, a roller journaled in bearings fixed in the box, open ings in the parallel walls of the box, the journals of the roller having angular. extensions V at their free ends that extend outward beyond the bearings and inalinement with said openings, a fixed post distant from the fixed box,

post located between the box and said pulley mo ends, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

CHARLES J. LANTZ.

and an arm projected horizontally from its top, a hanger connected with the said arm and a pulley at the lower end of said hanger, a line coiled around the roller and extended 5 over the pulleys connected with the fixed posts and a plurality of line-supports having pulleys at their tops and hooks at their lower Witnesses:

S. M. DAUGHENBAUGH, ALBERT BENSON. 

